Jamb Geography Past Questions For Year 1978
Question 36
The Middle Best of West Africa is NOT characterised by one of the following. Which one?
- A. Low population densities
- B. Ethnic fragmentation
- C. Few large towns
- D. Much export crop production
- E. Predominance of subsistence agriculture
Question 37
In which of the following countries is commercial grain farming an important occupation?
- A. Nigeria
- B. Kenya
- C. Spain
- D. Canada
- E. Brazil
Question 38
Which of the following gradients is the steepest?
- A. 1 in 134
- B. 1 in 351
- C. 1 in 531
- D. 1 in 315
- E. 1 in 153
Question 39
Temperature is to isotherms as air pressure is to
- A. isopleths
- B. contours
- C. isobars
- D. isolines
- E. isohyets
Question 40
The wearing away of the sides and bottom of a river's channel is called
- A. hydraulic action
- B. corrosion
- C. attrition
- D. corrasion
- E. solution
